Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Mar 2008 01:35:53 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/9] Make use of permissions, returned by kobj_lookup |
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:22:01 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
> > This doesn't include sufficient headers to be compileable. > > > > I'm sure there are lots of headers like this. But we regularly need > > to fix them. > > > > Not sure, whether this is still relevant after Greg's comments, but that's > the -fix patch for this one. (It will cause a conflict with the 9th patch.)
Well. Where do we stand with this? afaict the state of play is:
Greg: do it in udev Pavel: but people want to run old distros in containers
Realistically, when is the mainline kernel likely to have sufficient container functionality which is sufficiently well-tested for people to actually be able to do that? And how much longer will it take for that kernel.org functionality to propagate out into non-bleeding-edge distros?
Altogether we're looking at one to three years, aren't we? By then, perhaps a lot of "old" distros are already udev-based.
otoh, my experience upgrading old kernels to new udev has not been a good one (ie: it didn't work).
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